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Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes says he will buy $250M of company shares after strong Q4 results eased fears that AI could threaten its business model (www.ft.com)
2026-8-7 AI 4Q Atlassian

Sources: Google's AI shakeup is a seismic shift in the works for months and cements Sergey Brin's influence, after execs became frustrated with Demis Hassabis (www.ft.com)
2026-8-7 Google AI

Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-7 Startup AI

Sources: ByteDance is pre-training an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x Kimi K3 and potentially larger than estimates for Anthropic's Mythos 5 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Scientists Make First Viruses Designed By AI (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7 AI

Naïve, which provides infrastructure for AI agents to handle most business operations, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus, bringing its total funding to $32M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised $2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a $10.5B post-money valuation, up from $5.5B in April (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-7 AI Nvidia Sydney

A profile of DDN, a managed data storage company whose annual revenue is expected to grow from $300M pre-AI boom to $1B by year's end, fueled by AI partnerships (www.forbes.com)
2026-8-7 AI

We Asked AI For An Opinion Piece On ScoMo Forcing A By-Election On Voters. Computer Says No. (newmatilda.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Sources: Canva slashed revenue growth forecast as heavy use of new AI features drove up costs and slowed their rollout, while more Canva users turned to ChatGPT (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Gravity, which places text-based ads within AI chatbots, raised a $30.5M Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Committed, taking its total funding to $38.5M (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-7 AI chatbot

Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs (www.forbes.com)
2026-8-7 China AI

One Thing Is Clear about the AI Boom: It's Burning Huge Amounts of Cash, and Alphabet Needs More (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-7 AI Alphabet

Figma CEO Dylan Field forfeits ~$46M in stock awards to revive investor confidence amid AI disruption fears; FIG is down ~77% from its peak more than a year ago (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding viable viruses that can infect bacteria but pose no threat to humans (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Suno plans to adopt new watermarking and fingerprinting tech, transparency tools, and a new download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Times Magazine Now Serves Ads That Only AI Chatbots Can See (slashdot.org)
2026-8-7 AI chatbot

Meta AI model hacked a company during misconfigured cyber test (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7 AI

Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO may weaken the UK tech scene, marking an end for Hassabis' effort to keep his native UK as an AI stronghold (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 Google AI

Datadog drops 15%+ after forecasting weaker full-year sales due to reduced usage from its largest client, a leading AI company; Q2 revenue rises 36% to $1.12B (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-7 AI

WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-7 AI

How AI Exposed a Browser Security Gap that Enterprises Cannot Ignore (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7 AI Browser

Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-7 IPO AI Robot Shanghai

Ooredoo, Nvidia, Nokia, and Indosat launch Zankore, Indonesia's first dedicated AI compute and neocloud platform; Ooredoo, which owns a 49% stake, commits $800M (fortune.com)
2026-8-7 AI Indonesia Nvidia Nokia

Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

A look at Sequoia's revamped strategy under new stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, including bold AI bets; sources: Sequoia recently closed $10B in new funding (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 AI

OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” (www.axios.com)
2026-8-6 AI Apple

OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 iPhone AI Apple

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